Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1848 Oct 16 weather cloudy & like for Rain my wife gone to Mrs Hunts

17. Finished sewing fresh ground Tobacco Land 3½ Bushels sewed one that white from Mr McCullocks - weather cloudy & Rainy began to Hall up stalks from mountain field & sew that, Rainy & ground to[o] ^{to Plow}wet

18. Rained a fine Rain commenced Sewing Tobacco Lot this morning, white wheat from Mr McCullocks

29 Firing Tobacco & Digging Sweet & ^BushelsIrish Potatoes & finished sewing Lot

20 & 21st Firing Tobacco Halling stalks from mountain field & finished sewing that in wheat.

23rd gone to Mr. Jno D Hunts after Bricks to Lay Dining Room floor & get apples waggon & cart - cloudy & like for Rain Give Bro Angel ^{got 525 Bricks} 1½ Bus wheat carried it to Bro Yates for him about 10 ^agodays

24 Halling corn from stony with waggon 9 Loads this in all

30. Shucked out & put up corn from stony point. gathered corn at home 4 Loads & to day shucking that Halling up stalks from stony point Put up Fatting Hogs this day the Ballance say 19 now & 3 some time ago & Dick in yard

Nov. 1st Seeding wheat in Lot, ^{by Mallisas house}at home

2nd Finished there & gone to stony pint

1865 Decr 20th. Moved to [torn corner] Grove from Cedar Hill this day = family except Smith came here to live weight of Jordens & Sandys Blade fodder Jerrys takes & settles with them for I take fodder here & he takes it at Ceder Hill

Jordens & Sandys p^t Sorghum 436 Lowry & Abram p^t Sorghum & Some Sorrys Blades 360 H[?] Crab grass 90 lbs

1866 Janry 11th. Seven negroes thu[damaged] lived here, Jorden Sandy Buck & Lowry 1 Barrel Corn a p^s went to Cedar ^Hill & shucked it to day & give Jerry nearly 2 Barrels more

1872 July 27th 1 G Hoe 1 H Hoe 1 frow X Cut Saw 1 Auger 1874

1866 Sept. 13th Days that Dick & Alex, worked in My Plant [damage] of Logs halled [illegible] Pulling fodder ^{1 day now,} from 10 Oclock till night. - 14th Both pulled fodder all day 1 ps upper leather pr Alex Entered on Book

1866 Augt 7th Carried 1 Log 10 feet Long to Miller Mill to saw

1866 9th Augt Carried 1 Log to Yates 11 feet for Hh^d staves to day

10th Carr^d one 8 feet Long for Plank for Hen house, carried another same length same day making 3 at Millers & 1 at Yates to this 11th Augt 1866,

14th Carried another to Yates 11 feet long for Hh^ds staves by Henry little or young & he bro^t hind wheels home

15 Carried another 14 feet long Millers for Covering -Carried another same day for same purpose 16th augt Carried another for Planking sides

Began to Sew Oats 6th March 1866 Sewed — 1½ Bus.

1866 Augt 18th Sent 1 Log to Millers to pay for sawing 1 for Sept 3rd Car^d 2 more large ones & will all 3 not sawed yet 5 Carried 1 more to saw & divide [illegible] now to to saw.

[…] ely for rain warm weather […] Alex Came to cut wood @ 1/6 pr cord & […] in plantation @ 31 Cents day - beeting apples, Billy finished Hen House to day except roost Poles & nest which he is making

8 Dick & Alex cutting wood - worming & succoring Tobacco, getting up & Beeting some Crabs. I went to meeting - clear weather

9th I went to meeting Sunday

10 Pulling fodder I went to CH on business of Estate & for myself etc about children going to school & certificates of savings Bank Dick & Alex cutting wood

11 They are do same & malling wood worming & succorring Tobacco cloudy & like for rain Pride gone to old place & Mrs Colemans to make arrangements for the children all to start to C.H. to school to G.D. Neal

Sept 12th I went to meeting House about H Templeton & G. Pearcy - & to the shop had my horse shoes changed Billy here at work this mon morning clear moderate day & weather Pride & Doran Mattie & alice left yesterday for school at CH –

13th Daubed up & cleaned out old prize Barn, & then Pulling fodder & tying up, etc Dick & Alex Pulling fodder from 10 Oclock till night. Billy Hunt Sew here to day -

14 I went to old place & Jerrys our folks pulling fodder Dick & Alex all day tying Billy Hunt Sew shoemaking - clear day

15th taking Care of fodder stacks 1 stack

16th. I started to Court Saturday I went Rice to see Bro Brown about Bro Pearcy & Templeton

17th At Court Monday our folks stacking fodder fodder Tying up Tops making scaffold to Cut Tobacco, cloudy & warm weather Dick & Alex cutting & put wood Cutting Tobacco in new ground Dick & Alex Cutting wood